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Enabling AHCI on an Optiplex 745

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I am doing a thing where I have ran into an issue. I need to enable AHCI for my SATA drives, but there is no option in the Dell BIOS to do so. There is two modes for drives in the BIOS which are Normal and Legacy which I tried both of to no avail.

 

I am currently running Windows 10 Home 64-bit on an Optiplex 745 with a Core 2 duo, 6 Gigs of RAM, and a GT 610.

 

Does anyone know if there is a way to enable AHCI on my PC?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Some default to SATA-AHCI but probably its too old :).

 

Its not really important though. I have got Win10 x64 running on some optiplex 620s? without AHCI and they work.

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Some default to SATA-AHCI but probably its too old :).

 

Its not really important though. I have got Win10 x64 running on some optiplex 620s? without AHCI and they work.

 

I've been running windows just fine. Although, I'm trying to do a dual boot and OSX just simply won't recognize drives not running in AHCI..

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I've been running windows just fine. Although, I'm trying to do a dual boot and OSX just simply won't recognize drives not running in AHCI..

 

Ah; Unless you use an older version of OSX I think you might be SOL. Ill have a look when I goto the clients office with the Dell's today.

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The ICH8 that you have doesn't support AHCI. Well officially anyway. Intel won't provide a generic driver for it but won't keep OEMs from making their own ones either. In any case, that's where the selection would be if it was there. If you want it bad enough, I guess you could get a PCI-E card that does support AHCI. Like this one.

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I am doing a thing where I have ran into an issue. I need to enable AHCI for my SATA drives, but there is no option in the Dell BIOS to do so. There is two modes for drives in the BIOS which are Normal and Legacy which I tried both of to no avail.

 

I am currently running Windows 10 Home 64-bit on an Optiplex 745 with a Core 2 duo, 6 Gigs of RAM, and a GT 610.

 

Does anyone know if there is a way to enable AHCI on my PC?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Normal is ACHI.

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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